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South Australian battleground for both houses

ELIZABETH JACKSON: Now to South Australia, and AM's Caroline Winter has positioned herself in the electorate of Hindmarsh.

Caroline, Bob Katter and Clive Palmer have candidates in your electorate there. Do they appear to have much support?

CAROLINE WINTER: Elizabeth, on the face of it, no. Look there are seven candidates here in Hindmarsh, as you say - one from each of the Palmer and Katter parties, but standing outside this school in Cowandilla right in the heart of Hindmarsh, the signs are all for the Liberal candidate and the Labor incumbent.

So at the moment, Steve Georganas is the Labor MP. He's held this seat for nine years, but Matt Williams, who's the Liberal candidate, has been a fairly convincing opponent. I spoke with him yesterday - he is quietly confident.

And this is the seat that everyone's keeping their eyes on. Both Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott visited Hindmarsh this week, doing walkthroughs and talking to the voters.

Steve Georganas currently holds the seat by 6.1 per cent, so it is a fair swing, but if anything that we have heard that the swing may be on.

This is going to be one to watch, probably along with Adelaide and Wakefield.

ELIZABETH JACKSON: Now we haven't spoken much about the Senate this morning Caroline, but of course Nick Xenophon is from South Australia, and he appears to have a growing band of followers.

CAROLINE WINTER: Indeed. Nick Xenophon is an extremely popular politician. He was when he was in the State Parliament, and has followed suit in Federal Parliament. There's speculation that his vote could be as high as 20 per cent, which is quite phenomenal.

In South Australia, we've got two Labor Senators currently and two Liberal Senators. Nick Xenophon rounding out with The Greens' Sarah Hanson-Young, and it looks like she may well lose her seat to a further Liberal candidate.

This week has seen the local media almost explode with newspaper ads - full page, half page ads - basically Nick Xenophon and Sarah Hanson-Young and Cory Bernardi, Liberal Senator, weighing in, basically going for each other.

So there's no doubt that the Senate race here is probably the one to watch.

ELIZABETH JACKSON: Caroline Winter, in the seat of Hindmarsh in South Australia.

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